Branching Out

Beginning in the mid '70s, Bill T. Jones was the rebel king of downtown dance. Now performers who graced his troupe for various stretches, like Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky, and Alexandra Beller, are running companies of their own. Others, like Arthur Aviles, have gone a step further and secured space to present their own dances and the work of emerging troupes. Aviles's Hunts Point-based BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, 841 Barretto Street, 718-842-5223) hosts a season of up-and-coming artists including Antonio Ramos, a Puerto Rican dancer-choreographer, in his first full-evening concert (November 8-10). Ramos, a grad of the dance conservatory at SUNY Purchase, has performed with Stephen Petronio, Merián Soto, Kevin Wynn, Neil Greenberg, Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara, Eduardo Alegría, and others, including Ballet Hispanico, and he's not yet 30. Aviles's funky space, with stadium seating and a window wall overlooking the industrial east Bronx, is well worth a visit.

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP

September 9

Battery Park, off State and Pearl streets, 219-9401

A free outdoor concert by this blue-chip company.

'JOHN KELLY: THE PARADISE PROJECT'September 14, 18-21, and 25-28 The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, 255-5793, ext. 11An evanescent work by a gifted performance artist, based on Marcel Carne's classic French film Les Enfants du Paradis, has music by Michael Torke.

'DANCING IN A WAR ZONE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF ISRAELI DANCE'September 23 Makor Building, 92nd Street Y, 35 West 67th Street, 415-5500Catch a film about Israeli dance now, and listen to panelists discuss the current situation in the embattled country.

MIGUEL POVEDA FLAMENCOSeptember 29 Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7th Street and Third Avenue, 545-7536New York debut of a flamenco family from Spain.

AMERICAN BALLET THEATREOctober 15-27 City Center, 135 West 55th Street, 581-1212Ann Reinking, David Parsons, Natalie Weir, and Stanton Welch choreograph new works to songs by the late George Harrison.

BALLET PRELJOCAJOctober 16-19 BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100Angelin Preljocaj, France's most distinguished young choreographer, returns to the Next Wave Festival with passionate, mysterious works to music by Stockhausen and Stravinsky.